Clover Craze: Slot Overview

Some people link four-leaf clovers with good fortune, although the origin of that belief isn’t entirely certain. That’s essentially what Wikipedia notes, along with a 2017 survey of roughly 7 million clovers in Central Europe, which found four-leaf clovers (compared to three-leaf clovers) at about 5,000 to 1. Even less common are five-leaf clovers at 24,400 to 1, and rarer still six-leaf clovers at 312,500 to 1. In online slots, though, clovers don’t feel quite so scarce thanks to their “lucky” reputation. Developer Red Tiger leans into that idea with the online slot Clover Craze, where every clover you’ll see is the four-leaf kind.

Beyond the clovers, Clover Craze is packed with familiar slot staples like fruit, bells, and similar classics. It isn’t a full-on Irish-themed title, though a Celtic-sounding tune plays in the background, paired with the reels’ click as they spin and settle. Visually, the backdrop is a lime-to-deep-green field filled with clovers drifting around or hovering, sprinkling little particles of… something—maybe “luck.” One way or another, four-leaf clovers are everywhere, and the game definitely earns its name.

Clover Craze also caters heavily to players who enjoy purchasing bonuses, but regardless of how you play, you’ll need to choose a base stake from 10 c to $/€4. With standard play, the theoretical return is 96.25% RTP, which dips slightly to 96.02% when using feature buys. The action takes place on a 5-reel, 3-row grid, using 20 paylines that pay for left-to-right wins starting from the leftmost reel.

Symbol-wise, Clover Craze includes cherries, plums, oranges, lemons, watermelons, grapes, bells, and sevens. The first four fruit symbols listed pay 5x the bet for 5-of-a-kind combinations, while the remaining four symbols award between 12.5 to 150 times the bet for landing 5 matching icons.

Clover Craze: Slot Features

In Clover Craze, it’s clovers on top of clovers when it comes to features. To start with, Green Clovers and Golden Clovers act as wilds, replacing any paying symbol.

• Green Clover – a wild that lands on reels 2, 3, and 4. They cover the entire reel if they can form part of a winning combination after doing so .
• Golden Clover – a wild that lands on the center reel. When it lands in the middle of the reel, it triggers Golden Clover features. If a Golden Clover lands, but it is not in the middle of the reel, it transforms into a Green Clover.
• Golden Clover x3 – landing a Golden Clover in the middle of the center reel and a Green Clover on an adjacent reel forms a Big Golden Clover 2×3 in size with an x3 win multiplier.
• Golden Clover x7 – landing a Golden Clover in the middle of the center reel and Green Clovers on both adjacent reels forms a Huge Golden Clover 3×3 in size with an x7 win multiplier.
• Golden X Clover – landing a Golden Clover in the middle of the center reel and no Green Clovers, Sevens, or Bells land on adjacent reels means the Golden Clover clones on the top and bottom positions of both adjacent reels, creating an X shape.

Golden Clover Cash Respins

Hitting a Golden Clover in the middle position of the center reel, along with either a 7 of a bell symbol on a neighboring reel, triggers Cash Respins. To begin, the Golden Clover clones itself across the full reel, and any wins created are paid immediately. Then, every symbol matching the one that activated the Cash Respin (sevens or bells) turn golden and receives a cash prize shown as a stake multiplier: 7s award a cash prize of 3x, while bells award a cash prize of 2x. Only one symbol type can trigger the respins. If both a 7 and a bell land on adjacent reels, Cash Respins are initiated by the higher prize symbol, the 7. After that, the respins begin.

During the feature, you get 3 respins where only the triggering symbol type remains in play. Each time another symbol of that type lands, it locks them in place and resets the respin counter back to 3. The round ends if no new required symbols land across 3 respins in a row. When it finishes, all cash prizes are added up and awarded. Golden Clovers are treated as cash prizes too. It’s also possible to trigger Golden Clover x3 together with Cash Respins. In that case, the x3 win multiplier from the Big Golden Clover is removed at the start of the respin and does not apply to any wins. The 2×3 Golden Clover counts as 6 cash prize symbols.

Feature Buy

In the feature buy menu, players can purchase a spin with a guaranteed Green Clover for 5x the stake, a spin with a guaranteed Golden Clover landing in the middle of the grid for 25x the bet, a spin that guarantees the Golden Clover x3 feature for 50x the bet, or a spin that guarantees the Golden Clover x7 feature for 500x the bet.

Clover Craze: Slot Verdict

At first glance, Clover Craze can look like a fairly standard fruit slot—just with an unusually heavy clover presence—but it actually hides more involved and occasionally ruthless mechanics. There was a time when Red Tiger avoided bonus buys altogether; none of its games offered them, so the only route to the best parts was to grind and wait. That era is well in the past, and Clover Craze delivers one of the studio’s boldest bonus-buy lineups so far.

Regular Green Clovers were easily the most frequent special clover symbol. They mostly served as a small burst of action now and then, sometimes nudging a win through without doing anything spectacular. Golden Clovers, on the other hand, could be reluctant to show up, which is unfortunate because they unlock the most appealing possibilities—assuming they land in the middle of reel 3. From there, you can end up with Big or Huge Golden Clovers carrying a multiplier, or you can head into respins.

The game’s “all-in” choice is the 500x Golden Clover x7 buy. It’s expensive, but it’s also less volatile than some purchases because it guarantees a win by placing a 3×3 wild block with an x7 on the screen. Even so, after trying a number of these, most results still finished negative, and the best payouts were around 750x the base bet. That can quickly drag a balance down, although the game’s maximum potential is easy to map out in theory—fill reels 1 and 5 with sevens, land the 3×3 x7 wild, and you’re looking at 21,000x the bet.

The clover-heavy presentation isn’t the most captivating theme to watch for long sessions, and big moments may not come around often. Still, anyone who enjoys paying for high-stakes (and potentially underwhelming) single-spin bonus buys could find Clover Craze’s options appealing, as might players who see four-leaf clovers as a lucky omen.